At Wed, 1 Jun 2011 20:26:12 +0200 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote: > > > The command line I am using is: > > > > sudo virt-install --name=fc15guest --ram=1024 --os-type=linux \ > > --os-variant=fedora12 \ > > --location=/distrocds/Fedora/Fedora-15-x86_64-DVD.iso \ > > --disk="path=/dev/sauron/fc15guest" > > I have never used virt-install or Fedora 15 but, maybe you have to do the > same here like when installing RHEL6 using the iso image on a NFS server: > In the directory where the ISO is, you have to create a directory called > images and put the install.img from the DVD there. For RHEL6.1 the > dirlisting looks like this: > > [root at blubb i386]# ll -R > .: > total 3496772 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 19 18:20 images > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 204 May 19 18:13 MD5SUMS > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 218103808 May 12 12:53 rhel-server-6.1-i386-boot.iso > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3066486784 May 13 07:13 rhel-server-6.1-i386-dvd.iso > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 292583424 May 13 15:33 > rhel-server-supplementary-6.1-i386-dvd.iso > > ./images: > total 132152 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 135184384 May 11 00:30 install.img > > Just a guess but you could give it a try. > > Simon I found the problem -- I think I was selecting some *off screen* when tabing to the 'next' button using the GUI installer -- part of the GUI is off screen. (I am forced to use the GUI installer, since the text installer won't install things the way I want to (minimual install, using an ext3 file system). When I just hit return on the boot setup screen, it works (worked) properly. There is something really wrong with either virt-viewer or the FC15 installer -- either virt-viewer is lying about the screen size or the FC15 installer is making dumb assumptions about the monitor size or something like that. > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 / heller at deepsoft.com Deepwoods Software -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ () ascii ribbon campaign -- against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org -- against proprietary attachments